Highlighting policies and initiatives to advance innovation and drive economic growth

Rationalize Our Immigration System

In the hopes to continue a much-needed conversation on how to revamp the economy, this week I would like to highlight another policy recommendation that emerged from the Kauffman Foundation’s State of Entrepreneurship address: reform immigration policy to attract migrants who want to star... [More]
Posted By: Jonathan Ortmans at 02/08/2010 11:24 AM | Comments (0)
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Michigan Prioritizes Entrepreneurship

During her State of the State address, Gov. Jennifer Granholm laid out initiatives to help entrepreneurs. One of these initiatives involves entrepreneurship training through the expansion of the FastTrac program being offered at Detroit's TechTown. The FastTrac program, a national effort by ... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/08/2010 09:21 AM | Comments (3)
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A Look at Obama's Plan for Small Business

Within the past week President Obama outlined several proposals to help small business create jobs: $30 billion of federal bailout funds redirected to community banks to lend to small business Tax credits for new hires and wage increases Elimination of capital-gains tax on investments in small b... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/08/2010 09:17 AM | Comments (2)
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Recognizing Student Contributions to Solving World Problems

The Kauffman Foundation has awarded a grant to Olin College of Engineering to implement a nationwide award competition that will recognize students’ contributions to solving the major challenges facing the world today. The “Extraordinary Stories Student Awards” will be given to ... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/08/2010 09:13 AM | Comments (2)
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The Economic Power of University Spin-offs

According to Krisztina Holly, vice provost for innovation at the University of Southern California and former founding executive director of MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, “an opportunity to solve our job crisis lies right under our noses.” In an opinion ... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/08/2010 09:08 AM | Comments (2)
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Educating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs

As the nation seeks solutions to joblessness, policymakers and the media have been looking at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), an organization that has skillfully been tapping on our youth’s inventiveness and entrepreneurial potential through entrepreneurship education. The me... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/08/2010 09:04 AM | Comments (2)
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This Week in Entrepreneurship Policy

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Joint Economic Committee - Hearing "Hearings to examine the road to economic recovery, focusing on policies to create jobs and continue growth" 10:00a.m. [more info] Wednesday, February 10, 2010 House Committee on Science and Technology - Full Committee ... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/08/2010 08:30 AM | Comments (2)
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Leading Economics Bloggers Share Grim Outlook

The Kauffman Foundation has released the findings of its inaugural Economic Outlook: A Quarterly Survey of Top Economics Bloggers.As we reported on Monday, more than 200 top economics bloggers who participated in the mid-January survey graded on an A to F grading scale U.S. institutions and organiza... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/03/2010 11:38 AM | Comments (6)
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Facts on Job Creation

In light of President Obama's State of the Union pledge to make the creation of a million jobs his priority in the year to come, the Kauffman Foundation has compiled a list of related facts and studies:•    Why it is that young firms—not necessarily small firms—cr... [More]
Posted By: Mark Marich at 02/03/2010 11:34 AM | Comments (8)
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Young Firms (and our Nation) Need a Payroll Tax Holiday

The unemployment pressure does not appear to abate. Layoffs continue every day and despite massive government intervention for economic recovery, there is little evidence of anything more than a slow, prolonged recovery. It is time to give a payroll tax holiday for young firms.Different forms of hir... [More]
Posted By: Jonathan Ortmans at 02/01/2010 09:23 AM | Comments (3)
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